AUSTRALIAN.
(own correspodent.) Melbourne, Nov. 12. The police, acting on information from New Zealand, have arrested a man named Bland charged with embezzling over a thousand pounds from his employers, Messrs Stewart Dawson and Co., jewellers, Dunedin. The prisoner was brought up for examination and remanded for a week. The Federal Enabling Bill was read for the first time in the Legislative Council yesterday. A telegram has been received from Cooktown which tends to confirm the truth of the report concerning the massacre in New Guinea of the N.S.W Geographical Expedition. The message says that the camp, was surprised during the night. They were about 130 miles up the Fly River, and the party were slaughtered by an overwhelming force of natives. Brisbane, Nov. 12. A conflict has occurred between the Legislative Council and the Assembly through the Council erasing from the Appropriation Bill a vote of /7,000 for the payment of Members of the Assembly.
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Poverty Bay Independent, Volume I, Issue 74, 14 November 1885, Page 2
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